"It was just as you thought." He-El used telekinesis, flicking Batman down into the ruined floor of the Hall of Justice. The impact shook Batman's organs, knocking him unconscious.
"Damn it, what are you doing?!" Seeing He-El treat her first love so mercilessly, Zatanna Zatara shouted angrily. She reached toward He-El with spread fingers and cast Backward Magic. "Move."
Zatanna Zatara had once shared a less-than-happy first love with Batman. It had ultimately ended because Batman wanted to become Batman.
She had been born into a magical family, the daughter of the renowned master magician Giovanni John Zatara and Sindella, and a member of the Three Mystic Tribes of the East.
They were a special human variant born with the ability to manipulate mystical forces and wield magic.
Zatanna Zatara's greatest specialty was Backward Magic. By reciting magical incantations in reverse, she could make ordinary words affect reality and cast spells. Her Backward Magic could be cast in every language on Earth, including sign language. Even making sounds with a spelling-board toy would work.
The spells she could cast included elemental magic—fire, water, ice, air/wind, earth, lightning, light, and shadow—weather manipulation, telekinesis, Telepathy, spatial transportation, time travel, reality warping, mental counterattacks, energy reflection, time manipulation, magical energy beams, energy shaping, energy transfer, force-field shields, flight, levitation, healing, teleportation, size alteration, transformation, future sight, linking to the cosmic consciousness, and countless other immensely powerful spells.
But in He-El's eyes, her greatest weakness was that her body was only at an ordinary human level.
The members of the Justice League, including Batman, were still inside the Hall of Justice near He-El. She did not dare use highly destructive magic, so she used Backward Magic to move He-El instead.
Backward Magic truly was remarkable.
He-El's figure was forcibly teleported into the sky by